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OAKLAND – On Sept. 15-16 Clars Auction Gallery conducted a major Fine Art, Decorative Art, Furniture, Jewelry and Asian Art Auction, which Redge Martin, company president, described as their strongest sale of the year. The highlight was an original charcoal on paper by Norman Rockwell that sold for $242,000. Absentee and Internet live bidding was […]
‘Psycho’ One-sheet Featuring Hitchcock, $15,830 VALENCIA, Calif. – Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) was a larger-than-life figure in Hollywood, taking delight in making cameo appearances in the films he produced and directed. In 1960, his biggest projected film to date was Psycho, starring Anthony Perkins as the soon-to-be-notorious innkeeper Norman Bates. Hitchcock’s longtime studio, Universal Pictures, loved […]
PARIS — Fresh from its longtime home in a Zurich private collection, La Romance by Yiannis Moralis (1916-2009) went to market at Bonhams Cornette de Saint-Cyr on November 22. Estimated at €180,000-€250,000, the oil on canvas executed in 2001 stomped its estimate by hammering at €520,000 and selling for $568,680 ($722,230) with buyer’s premium. The […]